Wellness Appetizing Entrées Seafood & Poultry Variety Pack

This is a pack of eight 1.4 oz pouches of Wellness Appetizing Entrees in flaked tuna, mackerel, and shrimp flavor. I have a bunch of cats, and Wellness is a terrific pet food brand, so I was very excited to have the opportunity to have the cats try this food. When you pour this food out of the pouch, it looks and smells like real food. Some of my cats won’t touch anything other than pate or mousse style food, so as is usual for them, they didn’t like it, or rather they wouldn’t try it because that’s just how they are. The other cats, though, like this just fine. The ingredients in this food are absolutely top notch. The issue with it is that it is a tiny, tiny portion. It’s supposed to be an entree, but it’s the size of a lickable treat pouch (not the tubes, they are even smaller, but the pouches). The instructions say to feed 6 to 7 of these pouches for every 6 to 8 lbs of body weight. Essentially that means that this 8 pack of pouches that costs $9.52 (as of the time I’m writing this) is just one day’s worth of food for an 8 lb cat. Maybe that’s okay for one small cat if you can afford almost $10.00 per day, but honestly I don’t even eat $10.00 of food per day myself, plus I have a whole bunch of cats, most of whom are in the 10 to 12 lb range. According to the instructions, my 17 lb chonker cat would need two full trays of this food per day, almost $20.00 worth, and that’s just one cat of several. So this food truly is great food, but realistically it’s more of a meal topper or a treat than an entree.

My wife and I usually give our pets the freshest foods, and in turn they seem to live pretty healthy, happy lives.

That said even if our cats are in overall great shape and not overweight they like to eat near EVERYTHING. Bits of fruits, greens, some veggies, animal proteins (of course!), and unfortunately our one cat has sometimes eaten products that have made her sick in the past, resulting in excessive vomiting and dehydration.

These wellness packs do a great job of providing both nutrition and hydration. While we normally don’t resort to anything but human grade pet food, we like keeping higher quality packaged food like this to help give them hydration and stimulate their appetite.

The ingredients are overall superior to that of other competitors. Zero byproducts, no grains, and the primary ingredients are mostly made up of the seafood that are listed as what is in the food. Our cats, unsurprisingly, loved it and inhaled it when we put it into their bowls.

I also think it comes at a more than reasonable price point as well (little over $1/pack).

5/5. Recommended.